16 Image Creation Tools to Improve Your Content

For many brands and businesses photo albums and photos on Facebook can get up to 180% more engagement and social networking sites like Tumblr and Pinterest drive incredible amounts of traffic back to blogs and websites via images. To put it bluntly, images are more important than ever when it comes to online marketing. Unfortunately, not everyone has the time (or skills) to regularly produce images. Luckily for them, however, there are some free and easy tools that help with image creation in a pinch. Here’s a list of a few of my favorites.

Have Smartphone, Will Travel

If you have time to take your own pictures (or already have a few you’d like to use) and you want to edit them quickly, use some of these tools:

Free Photo Archives

Flickr – Per Flickr, “Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license”, and you can browse or search through content by clicking Advanced Search > Only search within Creative Commons-licensed content.

Wikipedia – Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content.

Roflbot – Creates meme-worthy pictures quickly. You can use your own pic, a pic from the web, or let Roflbot randomly select an image. Their branding appears very small on the bottom right hand corner of saved images.

Memegenerator – Another meme creator. Use already established memes and images and add your own unique slant